Sightseeing in Madrid - City Guide

SPORTS

Sports Day

June, 15th

An opportunity to practise different sports at differents sights in order to promote Madrid as Olympic site 2016. The sites will show the different colors of the Olypic rings:

Red ring: Plaza de Cibeles- an Olympic village for everybody

Blue ring: Retiro Park- athletics, horse racing and water sports among others

Green ring: Paseo del Prado- boxing, fencing, gymnastics and more

Black ring: Paseo de Recoletos-  football, hockey, hand- and basketball

Yellow ring: Plaza de Neptuno- badminton, tennis, volleyball, etc.

This event will take place every year from now on.

 Pre-Olympic Female Basketball

Telefonica Arena Madrid

June 9th - 15th

World Volleyball League

Palacio Vistalegre

June 27th

Spring-Summer Season at the Race Course

A-6, Autovia A Coruña km 8

June 15th and 22nd

MUSIC

Ballet

Felicitas

June 5th - 29th

Teatro Gran Via

Gran Via,66

Ballet Flamenco de Madrid

The Feeling

Teatro Reina Victoria

Carrera de San Jeronimo, 24

Opera 

Vec Makropulos

Teatro Real

Plaza Isabel II

June 16th - 18th, 21rst - 23rd, 25th and 28th - 30th

Rock in Rio

Ciudad del Rock

Arganda del Rey, Madrid

June 27th - July 6th

Jorge Drexler

Teatro Albeniz

Paz, 11

June 12th

Miguel Bose

Plaza de Toros de las Ventas

Alcala, 237

June 12th

Juanes

Palacio Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid

Plaza de Felipe II s/n

June 26th

EXHIBITIONS

Miro: Earth

Thyssen Bornemizsa Museum

Paseo del Prado, 8

June 17th - September 14th

The Renaissance Portrait

Prado Museum

Paseo del Prado s/n

June 3rd - September 7th

Chaplin in Images

Caixaforum

Paseo del Prado, 36

June 20th - October 19th 

Goya in Times of War

Museo del Prado

until July 13th

Egyptian Underwater Treasures

Matadero Madrid

Paseo de la Chopera, 14

until September 28th

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)

until August 31rst

Caixaforum

Paseo del Prado, 36

Edward Steichen, Fashion Photography

Museo del Traje

Avenida de Juan de Herrera, 2

June 25th - September 14th

Jose Damasceno. Coordinates and Apparitions

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Santa Isabel, 52

until June 23rd

Rodin. The Naked Body

Fundacion Mapfre

Avenida General Peron, 40

until July 6th

FAIR

Second Hand Vehicle Show

Feria de Madrid

June 13th - 22nd

Sustainable Development Conference

Palacio Municipal de Congresos

June 24th

World Petroleum Congress

Feria de Madrid

June 29th - July 3rd

Starting tomorrow and until next Sunday April 13th athletes from 33 countries take part in this event.
Many famous athletes like Andrei Moiseev or Victor Horvath will try to win the championship.
This championship is part of the many event being organised in order to promote Madrid as sight for the Olympic Games 2016.
The modern Pentathlon includes 5 different sports: shooting, fencing, swimming, riding and a 3000m race.

The famous chef Sergi Arola will be nominated ambassador for Madrid 2016 tomorrow at 1200 o´clock.
In 2003 he won the National Gastronomy Prize as best chef. He studied in Barcelona and was part of Ferran Adria´s team.
in 1997 he opened his first restaurant in Madrid and in 2000 he already had to Michelin stars.
The nomination will take place at his restaurant Sergi Arola Gastro in Zurbano, 31.

The Tennis Masters Senior Championship of the Comunidad de Madrid offers us the opportunity to see six of the best tennis players of all times. John McEnroe, Boris, Becker, Björn Borg, Jim Courier, Emilio Sanchez Vicario and Sergi Bruguera will take part in this event.
The matches will take place at the Palacio de Deportes of the Community which was inaugurated in 2005 after a fire burnt down the old building. It offers seats for 18000 people.

The six tenis player have won together over 240 prizes, 30 of them of the Grand Slam and 7 of the Masters.
The program is as follows:

Friday, March 28th at 1900:

Jim Courier vs Emilio Sanchez Vicario

and afterwards

Björn Borg vs Sergi Bruguera

Saturday, March 29th at 1900:

Winner of the first match vs Boris Becker

an afterwards

winner of the second match vs John McEnroe

Sunday, March 30th at 1100: third and fourth
and at 1300: Final

One of the most popular sport newspapers in Spain is Marca. This year it is its 70th birthday and one of the activities to commemorate this event is an exhibition of sport photographies. They can be seen in the Corte Ingles located at Paseo de la Castellana during February 2008.
The exhibition will be shown at different Corte Ingles malls in Spain until December 2008.
It presents about 500 photographies showing not only famous sportsmen, but also interesting and historical sport events. All of them have been published in the newspaper.
Marca started its history 1938 in San Sebastian and four years later opened its offices in Madrid. 30000 copies of the first edition were sold. Nowadays Marca has over 2,3 million readers and over 5,6 million visitors in its webpage www.marca.com.
The exhibition was inaugurated today by Madrid´s mayor, Ruiz Gallardon, who stated that the city is supporting the project Madrid 2016 in order to celebrated the Olimpic Games of that year here. He also said that one of the dreams Marca shares with the citizens is the opportunity to write the headline “Madrid, site of the Olimpic Games 2016“.

A new webpage dedicated to the projects regarding the Olympic Games 2016 has been presented today.
“It will offer a different and dynamic image of the city, trying to transmit optimism, illusion and confidence” said Madrid´s mayor Ruiz Gallardon.
The information will be offered in Spanish and English.
Of every ten inhabitants of Madrid nine support the candidacy to host the Games 2016.

The Olympic venues are going to be in different parts of Madrid and even different cities in Spain.
The main venues are going to be in the eastern part of Madrid with the Olympic stadium, water sports center, Olympic town, Real Madrid basketball hall and Ifema.
Next to river Manzanares, from the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid to Getafe, will be 9 sport sites for tennis, volleyball, archery finals, cycling, pentatlon, triatlon, riding and rhythmic gymnastics.

Outside of the city will be other sites like Paracuellos del Jarama for Olympic shooting, Coslada for volleyball, Getafe for rowing and Aranjuez for canoeing. Farther away, Valencia will host sailing and Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Cordoba, Malaga and Merida football.